Yesterday was the beginning of the exhibition installation, the spaces allocated to each group had already been decided, so we had a clear idea of what space we had to use.
We didn't have a direct plan for the space, more of an idea, that we were planning to tweek when we had all of our work in the space.
For the exhibition we had a keen idea to use the hexagon throughout, integrating our logo throughout the display. As our festival is quite interactive, we wanted to show this element to.
I came across this image on the blog patternity
it seemed to fit really well with our idea of integrating our logo into the display of the exhibition. We were also keen to present a zine library to showcase all of our zines and this shelving seemed like a great way to do that. But creating this shelving seemed easier said than done. A few of the girls in my group set to work on it but with few not particularly powerful power tools it wasn't seeming to hold up quite strong enough.
But we already had one of these hexagons now and didn't want to waste it, so the solution was suggested to use it as a sort of raised bed. We were already planning to create a sort of garden in the exhibition as a response to The Pothole Gardener and Guerrilla Gardening but it had yet to be completely decided how we were quite going to go about this. So this seemed like a perfect resolution.
We glued a plastic sheet around the insides, so that it could be transportable and to keep it neat and tidy and then started planting. I really enjoyed it. I personally regret not planning this a little better. I think in a way the fact that we hadn't planned it completely and the result being the transformation of our shelves worked wonderfully. But in terms of the planting I think we could have made it look a lot more attractive and maybe have collaborated with a local garden center or nursery to have gotten better quality and more interesting plants. The result did look visually appealing but I think it could have been better.
This idea of planting and working with flowers seems to be something that is constantly popping up in my work and I think it may be something I would like to pursue in the future. Here is a picture of our final box.
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